1990
Lorca: Plays 2
Lorca – A Chronology Introduction Gwynne Edwards Note on the Translations
David Edgar: Plays 2
Chronology Introduction David Edgar
Caryl Churchill: Plays 2
Caryl Churchill: A Chronology Introduction Caryl Churchill
Directors’ Shakespeare: Approaches to Twelfth Night
Preface Michael Billington Twelfth Night: a Stage History Approaches to Twelfth Night What Kind of Play? Seasons, Months and Days What is Illyria? A Displaced Englishness? Naturalism and Its Limits Emergence of the Themes Topical References – and Rhythms The Order of the Scenes The ‘Pressure Points’ of a Play The Choice of Period The …
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Shakespeare and Opera
Introduction Style A Passage to Opera Things Like Truths Worlds of Sound Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric The Story of O Dramaturgy Passion Play Simple Savor Those Fierce Moments Soliloquy, Set Speech, Aria I Soliloquy, Set Speech, Aria II The M-Word The Nature of Melodrama Kaleidoscope; or, Ringing the Changes The Pyramid Game Operatic Bard, Bardic …
The English Shakespeare Company: The story of ‘The Wars of the Roses’ 1986-1989
List of illustrations Introduction Part One Setting Up (September 1985-September 1986) Michael Pennington The Henrys (January-November 1986) Michael Bogdanov The First Tour (November 1986-March 1987) Michael Pennington The Old Vic and Toronto (April-July 1987) Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington Part Two The Wars of the Roses (July-December 1987) Michael Bogdanov The Second Tour (January-March 1988) …
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Salve Regina
Words: Eleventh-century Marian Antiphon
The Poetry of War, 1914-1989
“This selection of poems was first broadcast by BBC Radio” Introduction The Choice of Poems 1914-1918 The First World War The Outbreak of War Preparing for War The War Front The Home Front The Aftermath 1939-1945 The Second World War The Blackout, the Blitz and Evacuation Training Warfare At Home Victims of War 1945-1989 Hiroshima …
Opera and its Symbols
Part One: Principles Introduction A Totality of Symbols Words, Music, Staging Compatibility on Stage Part Two: Practice The Start of Opera Monteverdi The Age of Reason The Enlightenment A Masonic Vision The Romantic Movement Verdi Early Wagner Wagner’s Ring Further Wagner The Last of Wagner Realism Strauss The Twentieth Century Conclusion Appendix: Musical Examples from …
Re-interpreting Brecht
Introduction Pia Kleber Questions concerning Brecht Manfred Wekwerth The origins, aims and objectives of the Berliner Ensemble Joachim Tenschert Two generations of post-Brechtian playwrights in the German Democratic Republic (Rolf Rohmer) Productions of Brecht’s plays on the West German stage, 1945-1986 Klaus Völker Ups and downs of British Brecht John Willett Crossing the desert: Brecht …
Imperial Germany 1867-1918
Preface and acknowledgments Preface to the English edition Translator’s notes The German Empire as a system of skirted decisions A delaying compromise: the division of authority in the German Imperial constitution of 1871 The Prussian conception of the state and the German idea of Empire: Prussia and the German Empire in recent German history Society …